A video of a racist woman in Leicester has gone viral after she told Asians to get out of "her country" and Jamaicans to go "back to Somalia". The woman was filmed outside a taxi rank asking drivers "why they are in our small island" before calling one man a "dirty f*cking tramp". The Leicester driver, who does not want to be identified, sent the one minute 20 second recording to his cousin to be uploaded online, the Leicester Mercury reported....
Police are hunting a callous hit-and-run driver who mowed down a pregnant mum and her baby before leaving them for dead in the gutter. Detectives have released heartbreaking images showing the one-year-old tot with nasty facial injuries lying in hospital with her mother. The teenage girl, aged 17, and her daughter were struck by a car before being left in the road in Cobridge, Stoke-on-Trent on August 15. It is believed two cars – a silver VW Jetta and...
A "pure evil" teenager who stabbed to death a "popular, likeable and harmless" 15-year-old boy outside his school gates has been jailed for a minimum of 14 years today. The 15-year-old masked killer who moments early had been laughing and singing ambushed Quamari Serunkuma-Barnes at the end of the school day. He was said to have been influenced by violent rap lyrics when he chased Quamari armed with a large knife in front of horrified pupils. Quamari had shouted for...
A vile rapist has been jailed for eight years after he filmed himself abusing a woman in her sleep and used the footage to blackmail her into keeping quiet. Evil Alex Somerfield, 23, raped his victim last December but after he assaulted her in the street in February, she reported him to police. A court heard the thug deleted the footage from his mobile phone but experts were able to retrieve the incriminating evidence. Somerfield, of Handsworth, Birmingham, was...
A high-performance sportscar was recovered from the side of a house today (Tues) after it dramatically crashed through a wall and injured a man sat on his sofa. The white £20,000 VW Golf R was pulled from the dented three-bed semi after creating a picture-postcard snap of a Grand Theft Auto (GTA) video game stunt. A white VW Golf R is removed from the house it crashed into in York, which left one man seriously injured and three other people...
This is the face of the killer who stabbed a fellow school pupil to death and can legally be named for the first time after turning 18-years-old. Daniel Stroud was found guilty of stabbing Bailey Gwynne to death in the corridors of a high-achieving secondary school as an argument took a dark turn for the worse. Daniel Stroud while on trial for murdering Bailey Gwynne, at the High Court in Aberdeen Stroud regularly brought knives with him to Cults Academy...
Almost 800 years of additional imprisonment were imposed on prisoners found to have broken prison rules last year, as jails across England and Wales descended further into chaos. Research by the Howard League for Penal Reform reveals today (Monday 4 September) that prisons are routinely and increasingly resorting to draconian punishments in a counter-productive attempt to regain control. It shows that almost 290,000 additional days of imprisonment were handed down to prisoners during 2016 – a 75 per cent rise...
A bargain shop has been handed the biggest ever fine after inspectors discovered a rodent infestation that was so bad some of the rats were DEAD. Poundland was fined £100,000 and forced to shut after health inspectors discovered a widespread and uncontrolled rodent infestation throughout the store. Mouse droppings and evidence of urine were found on food shelves alongside gnawed and soiled packets of biscuits, nuts, sweets and popcorn. Droppings were found throughout the store and the behind-the-scenes storage areas...
A perverted loner who smuggled a grotesque sex doll of a CHILD into the country has narrowly avoided a jail sentence. Paedophile Brian Hopkins, 40, had a vast collection of sickening images and wanted to add the 3ft 9in mannequin to his sordid inventory. But he was caught out when Border Force officers discovered the doll at Stansted Airport, addressed to Hopkins' home in Plymouth, Devon. The flat-chested doll was 'anatomically correct' and immediately raised suspicions as it came in...
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